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For months, I've been looking for some hard statistical facts regarding the cat overpopulation problem, and the situation of cats in the U.S. in general. These figures come from http://purebredcatbreedrescue.org/purebred.htm

Just taking a stab...if half of these 8 million animals are cats, and half of those are adoptable...that's 2 million adoptable through shelters a year. That's not such a huge number, for a country the size of the US. And there are 73 million owned cats, 87% of whom are spayed or neutered.
So if you see a cat just running around, it's probably one of the 10-40 million ferals?